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Senior Portraits

Location guides, outfit inspiration, timing calendars, and session prep advice for high school seniors and their families on the South Shore of Massachusetts. Covering the full region from Hingham and Cohasset down to Duxbury, Plymouth, and Kingston — plus the specific beaches, parks, harbors, and downtown districts that actually photograph well in each season. Written by Chris McCarthy based on dozens of senior sessions each year across the region. Practical advice covers when to book (August and September fill up fastest for the following spring’s graduating class), what to wear at the beach vs. downtown vs. studio, how to get natural expressions out of a self-conscious 17-year-old, how to coordinate outfits across a sibling session without everyone matching, and how to plan around variable South Shore weather — the tradeoff between morning golden hour and a cleaner sky later in the day, and why some beaches are gorgeous in June and unusable by mid-August. If you are a parent planning a senior session, a senior trying to figure out where to shoot, or a coach/teacher/guidance counselor looking for a resource to share with students, the articles here cover the specific South Shore context in a way national photography blogs cannot.

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